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Torture is a crime under international law. It denies inherent dignity and seeks to annihilate a victim's personality. The United Nations has always condemned torture as being one of the vilest acts that human beings can perpetrate on each other. As long ago as 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declared that, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
On 26thJune 1987 the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Torture came into force and since 1998 this date has been commemorated as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
The UN makes it absolutely clear that according to all relevant instruments, torture is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. Furthermore, since this prohibition forms part of customary international law, it is binding on every member of the international community, regardless of whether a State has ratified international treaties that expressly prohibit torture. (...)

The article:
http://www.earthtimes.org/politics/un-international-day-support-victims-torture-26thjune/2056/

Per approfondire:
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=390

Sull'argomento:

http://unipd-centrodirittiumani.it/it/news/Commissione-affari-esteri-del-Senato-via-libera-al-disegno-di-legge-per-la-ratifica-del-Protocollo-opzionale-alla-Convenzione-ONU-contro-la-tortura-OPCAT/2602

http://www.helpconsumatori.it/diritti/reato-di-tortura-passi-avanti-amnesty-chiede-introduzione-entro-fine-legislatura/52217

Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_in_Support_of_Victims_of_Torture